The End of the World · Character

Jehovah

The God whose promised Dies Irae kept medieval Europe watching the sky, tolling bells for unseen hands, and counting verses in the Psalms.

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Referenced as the creator in the magical guess: 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'

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Jehovah presides over the great millennial fevers, when the year 1000 came and went without the Bridegroom, and chiliasts simply recalculated for 1030 or 1033. Dennis catalogs the signs that seemed to confirm the hour: wars, famines, plagues, dragons in the sky, a black wolf ringing the bells of Orleans. He matters because the recurring failure of his announced judgment, and the faith that survives each failure, is the pattern the whole book traces.

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End-Times Prophets and Predictors
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Aftermath
Closing

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Jesus Christ
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Noah
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